The National Zoo gets a new state of the art Elephant Community Center complete with 8,943 square meters of romping room ...

A new video from conservation nonprofit Save Vietnam's Wildlife shows the plight of the world's only scaled mammal, the ...

Marine biologist Nancy Knowlton discusses a research trip to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, in Panama, where ...

MS Fram has just crossed the Arctic Circle, so far north that the sun practically never sets. To celebrate, the crew stage a ...

With hundreds of new uranium mining claims filed within just a few miles of Grand Canyon National Park, a proposed new law ...

After molting (note the discarded shell in the background), a black-backed land crab struggles to move its flimsy new ...

While camouflaged on the ocean floor off the coast of Israel in the Red Sea, octopods use their arms to grab unsuspecting ...

In the Arctic regions of Norway, researchers track down reindeer to measure how the warming winters affect the species at ...

Quiksilver captures stunning aerial views of the world champion surfer's dazzling technique (01:41) ...

In Panama, researchers recorded army ants crafting living bridges to take the most efficient route along the forest floor.

To offset the environmental impact of their drilling in Wyoming's gas fields, energy companies are funding mitigation ...

Researchers at a conservation center in Thailand tested many variables to study an elephant’s gait and how they accelerate ...